Maine's Hard Sell: Island Life

ISLE AU HAUT, Maine—This island's year-round population could fit into an average-size Burger King, not that there is one here.

Out on this forested, rocky dot 6 miles off the Maine coast, there are no speed limits, movie theaters or other mainstays of mainland life. And if your car goes kaput, "God bless you trying to get that fixed because we don't have a mechanic," said local resident Bill Calvert, steering his...